# IPFS Boards

Boards is an experiment with the goal of figuring out whether it's possible to have
a discussion board, forum or social network that works inside a normal browser tab
without relying on servers, desktop applications, browser extensions, the blockchain
or anything else.

The goals in detail:

- all communication should happen in the most distributed way possible using
peer to peer systems
- should work completely offline without anything else other than a web browser
after it's downloaded for the first time 
- all data including assets, code and user created content needs to be distributed
and/or replicated between the users

The project is in prototype stage and works thanks to the [IPFS](https://ipfs.io)
distributed file system.

You're looking at the new implementation of Boards. If you want to check out the
old one [follow this link](https://github.com/fazo96/ipfs-boards)

The first iteration focuses on creating boards, posting content and commenting.
Moderation tools, encryption, friends lists, private messages, real time chat and
other features will be attempted in the future

## Try it out

There is no public build yet, check out the next section

## Working on the code

This is a react project using redux, react-router-redux and redux-saga

The UI is being implemented using semantic-ui-react

Clone this repo, then run

- `yarn` to install dependencies
- `yarn start` to start a development server
- `yarn run build` to create a production build